Artificial Intelligence for TOols PRE Setting

European manufacturing is at the centre of a twin ecological and digital transition, being both driver and subject to these changes. At the same time, manufacturing companies must maintain technological leadership and stay competitive. The size and the complexity of the associated challenges - such as the integration of Artificial Intelligence and the use of industrial data and the need for agility and responsiveness - requires pooling of resources and a novel approach of cooperation. In particular, manufacturing industry is on the verge of major paradigms shift that will take us away from mass production, way beyond lean manufacturing, into a world of “Agile Manufacturing” (i.e. Lot-size one – distributed manufacturing). Concurrently, although the fourth industrial revolution is still a relatively new concept, Industry 5.0 is already on the horizon, which will bring about a new paradigm of cooperation and interaction between humans and machines. This isn’t to say humans will eventually be phased out of the production cycle. On the contrary: Industry 5.0 will enhance both machine and human roles in the manufacturing industry, leaving the monotonous, repetitive tasks to the mechanical dimension and leaving the creative side to the human. This will allow staff to take on more responsibility and increase systems supervision to elevate the quality of production across the board. The proposed project goes precisely in this direction, by developing an automatic visual inspection system applied on Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools: inspired by both Industry 5.0 and Collaborative Intelligence concepts, as a manufacturing SME of lathed and milled workpieces for several industrial sectors, Intermek Srl, in short ITK, (PIC number 947691359)aims at getting acquainted with the AI potentials by leveraging on the expertise of a technological provider with expertise in Artificial Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in quality and process control, provided by Video Systems Srl, in short VSYS, (PIC number 953587504) and experimenting services within the premises of the main facility LEF 4.0 (PIC number 933196455), in the local DIH (DIH Alto Adriatico,from now onwards DIH AA) in its realistic testing and experimentation facility. The project willencompassallthephasesfrommodeling todeployment,testingandexperimentationandmight evolute with the development of a TERESA (TEchnological REgulatory SAndbox), a TRL7 demonstrator hosted by LEF4.0.